spidersandsnakes Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 A solution might be to give a PAY RISE to husbands who work so that women would not have to work their guts out to keep with their "freedom"-----I'M NOT SAYING that women should not work and have their OWN MONEY....by all means......but let's re-structure this society of ours :)!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Rider Posted May 9, 2011 Share Posted May 9, 2011 You can see at 2:30 that the highway was very well designed in the event of a flood, as the waters are contained and the highway is built higher above the flood plain. Aerial view Moment of impact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidersandsnakes Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 The impact vid is quite terrifying!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 U.S Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue By Laura Italiano and Kerry Murtha December 22, 2013 | 6:40am Crew members scrub contaminated snow off the deck of USS Ronald Reagan in March 2011 during a humanitarian mission off tsunami-stricken Japan. Photo: Getty Images Navy sailor Lindsay Cooper knew something was wrong when billows of metallic-tasting snow began drifting over USS Ronald Reagan. “I was standing on the flight deck, and we felt this warm gust of air, and, suddenly, it was snowing,” Cooper recalled of the day in March 2011 when she and scores of crewmates watched a sudden storm blow toward them from the tsunami-torn coast of Fukushima, Japan. The tall 24-year-old with a winning smile didn’t know it then, but the snow was caused by the freezing Pacific air mixing with a plume of radioactive steam from the city’s shattered nuclear reactor. Now, nearly three years after their deployment on a humanitarian mission to Japan’s ravaged coast, Cooper and scores of her fellow crew members on the aircraft carrier and a half-dozen other support ships are battling cancers, thyroid disease, uterine bleeding and other ailments. “We joked about it: ‘Hey, it’s radioactive snow!’ ” Cooper recalled. “I took pictures and video.” But now “my thyroid is so out of whack that I can lose 60 to 70 pounds in one month and then gain it back the next,” said Cooper, fighting tears. “My menstrual cycle lasts for six months at a time, and I cannot get pregnant. It’s ruined me.” The fallout of those four days spent off the Fukushima coast has been tragic to many of the 5,000 sailors who were there. At least 70 have been stricken with some form of radiation sickness, and of those, “at least half . . . are suffering from some form of cancer,” their lawyer, Paul Garner, told The Post Saturday. “We’re seeing leukemia, testicular cancer and unremitting gynecological bleeding requiring transfusions and other intervention,” said Garner, who is representing 51 crew members suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant. “Then you have thyroid polyps, other thyroid diseases,” added Garner, who plans to file an amended lawsuit in federal court in San Diego next month that will bring the number of plaintiffs past 70. Senior Chief Michael Sebourn, a radiation-decontamination officer, was assigned to test the aircraft carrier for radiation. The levels were incredibly dangerous and at one point, the radiation in the air measured 300 times higher than what was considered safe, Sebourn told The Post. The former personal trainer has suffered a series of ailments, starting with severe nosebleeds and headaches and continuing with debilitating weakness. He says he has lost 60 percent of the power in the right side of his body and his limbs have visibly shrunk. “I’ve had four MRIs, and I’ve been to 20 doctors,” he said. “No one can figure out what is wrong.” He has since retired from the Navy after 17 years of service. Even as the Reagan was steaming toward the disaster, power-company officials knew the cloud of steam they were releasing — in order to relieve pressure in the crippled plant — was toxic, the lawsuit argues, a claim that has also been made by the Japanese government. Tokyo Electric Power also knew that radioactivity was leaking at a rate of 400 tons a day into the North Pacific, according to the lawsuit and Japanese officials. “We were probably floating in contaminated water without knowing it for a day and a half before we got hit by that plume,” said Cooper, whose career as a third-class petty officer ended five months after the disaster for health reasons. The toxic seawater was sucked into the ship’s desalinization system, flowing out of its faucets and showers — still radioactive — and into the crew member’s bodies. “All I drink is water. You stay hydrated on that boat,” said Cooper, who worked up to 18 hours at a time on the flight deck loading supplies onto a steady stream of aid helicopters for four days, all the while drinking out of the two-gallon pouch of water hooked to her gear belt. By the time the Reagan realized it was contaminated and tried to shift location, the radioactive plume had spread too far to be quickly outrun. “We have a multimillion-dollar radiation-detection system, but . . . it takes time to be set up and activated,” Cooper said. “And then we couldn’t go anywhere. Japan didn’t want us in port, Korea didn’t want us, Guam turned us away. We floated in the water for two and a half months,” until Thailand took them in, she said. All the while crew members had been suffering from excruciating diarrhea. “People were s- -tting themselves in the hallways,” Cooper recalled. “Two weeks after that, my lymph nodes in my neck were swollen. By July, my thyroid shut down.” Cooper, the single mother of a 4-year-old girl named Serenity, says her biggest worry is that she will get cancer. Her own mother died recently of breast cancer at age 53. “This isn’t about financial gain,” Cooper said of the lawsuit. “This is about what’s going to happen while I’m sick, and then after I’m gone.” “I worry,” she added, her voice choking, “because I have a daughter. And I’m so sick.” http://nypost.com/2013/12/22/70-navy-sailors-left-sickened-by-radiation-after-japan-rescue/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles J. White Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Japan really has fucked us up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Japan really has fucked us up I thought it was the earthquake/tsunami that caused the damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles J. White Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 I was referring to the complete and total incompetence of the Japan's government and nuclear industry to stop the water leaks, discover water leaks from the plants and so on. Japan’s inability to communicate to its allies that radioactive clouds were dumping shit all over the people who were planning on assisting them. But I guess it makes sense, the nation has been an economic basket case now for the last 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave to zep Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 U.S Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue By Laura Italiano and Kerry Murtha December 22, 2013 | 6:40am Crew members scrub contaminated snow off the deck of USS Ronald Reagan in March 2011 during a humanitarian mission off tsunami-stricken Japan. Photo: Getty Images Navy sailor Lindsay Cooper knew something was wrong when billows of metallic-tasting snow began drifting over USS Ronald Reagan. “I was standing on the flight deck, and we felt this warm gust of air, and, suddenly, it was snowing,” Cooper recalled of the day in March 2011 when she and scores of crewmates watched a sudden storm blow toward them from the tsunami-torn coast of Fukushima, Japan. The tall 24-year-old with a winning smile didn’t know it then, but the snow was caused by the freezing Pacific air mixing with a plume of radioactive steam from the city’s shattered nuclear reactor. Now, nearly three years after their deployment on a humanitarian mission to Japan’s ravaged coast, Cooper and scores of her fellow crew members on the aircraft carrier and a half-dozen other support ships are battling cancers, thyroid disease, uterine bleeding and other ailments. “We joked about it: ‘Hey, it’s radioactive snow!’ ” Cooper recalled. “I took pictures and video.” But now “my thyroid is so out of whack that I can lose 60 to 70 pounds in one month and then gain it back the next,” said Cooper, fighting tears. “My menstrual cycle lasts for six months at a time, and I cannot get pregnant. It’s ruined me.” The fallout of those four days spent off the Fukushima coast has been tragic to many of the 5,000 sailors who were there. At least 70 have been stricken with some form of radiation sickness, and of those, “at least half . . . are suffering from some form of cancer,” their lawyer, Paul Garner, told The Post Saturday. “We’re seeing leukemia, testicular cancer and unremitting gynecological bleeding requiring transfusions and other intervention,” said Garner, who is representing 51 crew members suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the Fukushima Daiichi energy plant. “Then you have thyroid polyps, other thyroid diseases,” added Garner, who plans to file an amended lawsuit in federal court in San Diego next month that will bring the number of plaintiffs past 70. Senior Chief Michael Sebourn, a radiation-decontamination officer, was assigned to test the aircraft carrier for radiation. The levels were incredibly dangerous and at one point, the radiation in the air measured 300 times higher than what was considered safe, Sebourn told The Post. The former personal trainer has suffered a series of ailments, starting with severe nosebleeds and headaches and continuing with debilitating weakness. He says he has lost 60 percent of the power in the right side of his body and his limbs have visibly shrunk. “I’ve had four MRIs, and I’ve been to 20 doctors,” he said. “No one can figure out what is wrong.” He has since retired from the Navy after 17 years of service. Even as the Reagan was steaming toward the disaster, power-company officials knew the cloud of steam they were releasing — in order to relieve pressure in the crippled plant — was toxic, the lawsuit argues, a claim that has also been made by the Japanese government. Tokyo Electric Power also knew that radioactivity was leaking at a rate of 400 tons a day into the North Pacific, according to the lawsuit and Japanese officials. “We were probably floating in contaminated water without knowing it for a day and a half before we got hit by that plume,” said Cooper, whose career as a third-class petty officer ended five months after the disaster for health reasons. The toxic seawater was sucked into the ship’s desalinization system, flowing out of its faucets and showers — still radioactive — and into the crew member’s bodies. “All I drink is water. You stay hydrated on that boat,” said Cooper, who worked up to 18 hours at a time on the flight deck loading supplies onto a steady stream of aid helicopters for four days, all the while drinking out of the two-gallon pouch of water hooked to her gear belt. By the time the Reagan realized it was contaminated and tried to shift location, the radioactive plume had spread too far to be quickly outrun. “We have a multimillion-dollar radiation-detection system, but . . . it takes time to be set up and activated,” Cooper said. “And then we couldn’t go anywhere. Japan didn’t want us in port, Korea didn’t want us, Guam turned us away. We floated in the water for two and a half months,” until Thailand took them in, she said. All the while crew members had been suffering from excruciating diarrhea. “People were s- -tting themselves in the hallways,” Cooper recalled. “Two weeks after that, my lymph nodes in my neck were swollen. By July, my thyroid shut down.” Cooper, the single mother of a 4-year-old girl named Serenity, says her biggest worry is that she will get cancer. Her own mother died recently of breast cancer at age 53. “This isn’t about financial gain,” Cooper said of the lawsuit. “This is about what’s going to happen while I’m sick, and then after I’m gone.” “I worry,” she added, her voice choking, “because I have a daughter. And I’m so sick.” http://nypost.com/2013/12/22/70-navy-sailors-left-sickened-by-radiation-after-japan-rescue/ this is what happened after the Chernobyl disaster, http://thyroid.about.com/cs/nuclearexposure/a/chernob.htm i have had thyroid cancer. i had to ingest radioactive iodine as a treatment. it eats away any thyroid gland that is left after surgery. i feel so sorry for these people. the woman in that story ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apantherfrommd Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Need a job?Special Report: Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up(Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head."This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold.It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.Almost three years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami leveled villages across Japan's northeast coast and set off multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Today, the most ambitious radiation clean-up ever attempted is running behind schedule. The effort is being dogged by both a lack of oversight and a shortage of workers, according to a Reuters analysis of contracts and interviews with dozens of those involved.In January, October and November, Japanese gangsters were arrested on charges of infiltrating construction giant Obayashi Corp's network of decontamination subcontractors and illegally sending workers to the government-funded project.In the October case, homeless men were rounded up at Sendai's train station by Sasa, then put to work clearing radioactive soil and debris in Fukushima City for less than minimum wage, according to police and accounts of those involved. The men reported up through a chain of three other companies to Obayashi, Japan's second-largest construction company.Obayashi, which is one of more than 20 major contractors involved in government-funded radiation removal projects, has not been accused of any wrongdoing. But the spate of arrests has shown that members of Japan's three largest criminal syndicates - Yamaguchi-gumi, Sumiyoshi-kai and Inagawa-kai - had set up black-market recruiting agencies under Obayashi."We are taking it very seriously that these incidents keep happening one after another," said Junichi Ichikawa, a spokesman for Obayashi. He said the company tightened its scrutiny of its lower-tier subcontractors in order to shut out gangsters, known as the yakuza. "There were elements of what we had been doing that did not go far enough."Read More Here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apantherfrommd Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Study: Dead sea creatures cover 98 percent of ocean floor off California coast; up from 1 percent before Fukushima Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/043380_fukushima_radiation_ocean_life.html#ixzz2pMPB6TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apantherfrommd Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Fukushima Workers Use Duct Tape to “Stop” Radiation LeaksRebar wasn’t even used to reinforce the concrete foundation under water tanks, says worker.Kit DanielsInfowars.comJanuary 6, 2014A Japanese worker who spent six months at the Fukushima nuclear power plant says that he isn’t surprised about the latest radioactive leaks from the plant because of its shoddy construction and repair work, including the use of duct tape to “fix” key equipment."White adhesive tape" was reportedly used to cover radioactive water sitting in tanks. Yoshitatsu Uechi, 48, told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper that he and his fellow workers were under such intense pressure to perform repairs as quickly as possible on the devastated plant that adhesive tape was used to “repair” critical equipment and that they even neglected to apply rust inhibitor on the radioactive water tanks.“I couldn’t believe that such slipshod work was being done,” he said. “Even if it was part of stopgap measures.”Back in Oct. 2012, Uechi and another worker climbed to the top of a storage tank holding radioactive water in order to bolt a steel lid over its opening.When they reached the top, he noticed that the opening, one foot in diameter, was only covered with white adhesive tape and that the water level was less than two feet from below the opening.He was given only four bolts to fasten the lid even though there were eight bolt holes in total.Uechi also revealed cost-cutting techniques used during the plant’s construction, such as the decision to use wire net to reinforce the concrete foundation under the water tanks instead of much stronger and more commonly used rebar.Furthermore, waterproof sheets were placed over the joints inside tanks instead of sealing agent, which would have been much more effective at stopping radiation leaks.Uechi’s experiences add to the already exhaustive evidence that the nuclear disaster is far more deadly than what the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the Japanese government suggest.Japanese officials even admitted that the radiation levels surrounding the plant were 18 times higher than they had previously reported. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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